Delivers virtual storage for the midsize customer that provides enhanced performance, better capacity utilization, and easier management of on-demand storage activities.
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The HP StorageWorks 4400 Enterprise Virtual Array Starter kits are easily ordered, simply deployed array packages affordably priced for the midsized customer. There are two types of kits, Basic and BladeSystem. EVA virtualization improves capacity and reduces management complexities, lowering total cost of ownership compared to traditional arrays. The EVA4400 fits well for customers looking for a high-performance, scalable, reliable and highly available storage solution that can be installed in just a few hours, offering tiered storage with support for high-performance Fibre Channel drives or lower priced FATA drives. These starter kits bring a host of benefits in a virtual environment: ease of management with Command View EVA software, superior integration, broad operating system support; high availability architecture; dual-redundant design and 99.999% availability; iSCSI and FC SAN attach, and support of local and remote replication capabilities and disaster tolerance software.
What's new
The EVA4400 SAN Starter Kit is a complete solution with 8Gb/s embedded switches, 8Gb/s HBAs, SmartStart for EVA Storage and Microsoft Simple SAN certification.
Features &
Benefits
Powerful Performance
Affordable enterprise-class storage: The EVA4400 is easier to install, upgrade and repair, at an affordable price for midsized customers. These Starter Kits are aggressively priced, targeted at specific market segments including HP BladeSystems.
Reduces install and management complexities: Reduces complexities of installations typically found in traditional arrays by employing EVA virtualization capabilities to improve your management resources.
Spend less time managing storage: Installation is quick and easy taking only a few hours freeing you to manage your business priorities and not your storage solution. You can easily upgrade, repair and replace components yourself, without the need for a service call.
Easy Integration
Lower cost of ownership: Contributing to an attractive Total Cost of Ownership, the EVA4400 is more affordable and less complex than traditional arrays. The EVA4400 Starter Kits are single part number packages that are easy to order.
Simplify integration of business applications: EVA4400 Solution Blocks provide blueprints for integration with Microsoft Exchange, Oracle and SAP that combines the right server, storage and application components for quick deployment of typical business intelligence, disaster recovery, mail and messaging applications as well as other projects.
Storage that keeps pace in a changing world: In a dynamic VMware environment, the most complimentary storage is that which can respond quickly to change. The aggressively priced Starter Kit for BladeSystems meets this requirement because the EVA4400 is easy to manage and provisions storage.
Reliable and Available
Complete solution for storage and servers: The EVA4400 SAN Starter Kits provide a complete solution from HBA to disk drive, including embedded switch features. The BladeSystem kits offer a simple solution where storage and servers are managed together, offering virtualized storage in a VMware environment. Both are very affordable packages.
Easy and robust disaster recovery: Local and remote replication software, Business Copy EVA and Continuous Access EVA, protect data so in the event of a service disruption, recovery is quick and easy.
High availability for planned uptime: Customers can expect 99.999% availability with dual-redundant architecture of high-end arrays supports robust local and remote replication capabilities.
